cayenne vs chile

cayenne and chile both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cayenne	Yes	No	No	No
chile	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, chile is a hypernym of cayenne; that is, chile is a word with a broader meaning than cayenne:

Other hypernyms of cayenne include chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly.

cayenne (noun)	chile (noun)
ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum	very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency
a long and often twisted hot red pepper
plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red